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Shadow Dancer Shadow Dancer - Japanese Logo - Katakana / Kanji

Shadow Dancer - Cabinet - Video Game Marquee

Description

A young Ninja named Hayate battles together with his faithful pet dog, Yamato. At the center of the city, a terrorist group known as the "Asian Dawn" is commiting every imaginable atrocities known to man, including the planting of time bombs throught the metropolis. Hayate and Yamato courageously set out to gather up all the explosive placed by the evil gang and annihilate the mastermind of the Asian Dawn.

Shadow Dancer was produced by Sega in 1989.

Sega released 591 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1936. Sega was based in United States.

Other machines made by Sega during the time period Shadow Dancer was produced include: Excite League, Ufo Senshi Yohko Chan, Tetris (Sega), Scramble Spirits, Power Drift, A.B. Cop, Alex Kidd In The Enchanted Castle, Crack Down, Dynamite Dux, and ESWAT Cyber Police

Shadow Dancer - Cabinet - Machine
Cabinet
(Contributed by: Roger Coltrane)

Specs

Name Shadow Dancer
Developer Sega (United States)
Year 1989
Type Videogame
KLOV/MOG # 9499
Class Wide Release
Genre Scrolling Fighter
Monitor
Conversion Class Sega System 18
Dipswitch Settings

Shadow Dancer Dipswitch Settings (user contributed)

# Simultaneous Players 1
# Maximum Players 2
Gameplay Alternating
Control Panel Layout Single Player
Sound Amplified Mono (one channel)
Cabinet Styles
  • Upright/Standard
Instructions Shadow Dancer Instructions Image
Control Panel Shadow Dancer Control Panel Image
Side Art Shadow Dancer Side Art Image
PCB Shadow Dancer PCB Image

Game Play

Pull joystick down and push ATTACK button to send your dog to attack your opponents. To wipe out everything on the screen use NINJA MAGIC button.

Shadow Dancer KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 3.59 (4 votes)

Fun Factor: 3.55

Overall Like 4.00
Fun (Social) 2.50
Fun (Solo) 4.00
Collector Desire 3.25

Technical Rating: 3.63

Gameplay 4.25
Graphics 4.00
Originality 3.50
Sound/Music 2.75

Personal Impressions and Technical Impressions each account for half of the total score. Within the Personal Impressions category, Like carries a little more weight than the other factors.

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Trivia

This game actually takes place twenty years after the original Shinobi. The main character is not actually Joe Musashi, but his raised-in-America son named Hayate. His dog's name is Yamato.

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Shadow Dancer Census

There are 14,717 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,455 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 164,291 machines (6,886 unique titles).

Very Common - There are 89 known instances of this machine owned by Shadow Dancer collectors who are active members. Of these, 8 of them are original dedicated machines. 7 of them are conversions in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet. 73 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

For Sale - There are 4 active VAPS members with a Shadow Dancer machines for sale. There are 4 active VAPS members with a Shadow Dancer circuit boards for sale.

Wanted - There are 2 active VAPS members currently looking for Shadow Dancer. There is one active VAPS member looking for a Shadow Dancer circuit board set.

This game ranks a 26 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.

This game ranks a 5 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census want list records.

Rarity and Popularity independently are not necessarily indications of value. [More Information]

Flyers

Legacy

  1. Shinobi
  2. Shadow Dancer

Manuals

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